this girl that i used to go out with had the "he took it out" incident happen to her during a dinner date (not with me BTW). We stayed friends after we weren't seeing each other. And one night, she called me from the cab right after she walked out on this dude. So apparently they were having dinner and it isn't going well, because the conversation is dull and this guy is kind of dumb. (He also apparently told her that he was going to cook her an italian meal and it was some store bought crap). So anyways, he just stands up at the dinner table and whips it out and says something like "once you have some of Geno you will want no other". So I ask her if she may have maybe accidentally sent a signal that may have prompted him... and in essense she and I had the same conversation Elaine and Jerry had in The Stand-in. the best part is that she had never seen seinfeld.Once I noticed what had gone down.

I lived on the Upper West Side during the Seinfeld run and there were many real things in the neighborhood that made it to the show.

1) Everyone knows the Soup Nazi was real. My first job in NYC was about 50 yards away from his first shop on 55th and he was called "The Soup Nazi" pretty much from the very first day he opened. All my co-workers called him that long before Seinfeld. I am not saying we invented it, I am saying it was his hyper-obvious name, like when people call me "Big Nose". Everyone who met him invented it. And yes he was a complete dick who yelled at customers constantly.

2) The Citibank on 72nd& Broadway had a customer service rep who was named "Donna Chang". She was African American. This has to be the source of The Chinese Woman episode. Nice lady.

3) Best of all, my beloved P&G, where I was idiot-in-residence for several years, was used for exteriors.

/ ok sorry for such a boring post but it is snowing here and QUIET and I am bored.

I lived on the Upper West Side during the Seinfeld run and there were many real things in the neighborhood that made it to the show.

1) Everyone knows the Soup Nazi was real. My first job in NYC was about 50 yards away from his first shop on 55th and he was called "The Soup Nazi" pretty much from the very first day he opened. All my co-workers called him that long before Seinfeld. I am not saying we invented it, I am saying it was his hyper-obvious name, like when people call me "Big Nose". Everyone who met him invented it. And yes he was a complete dick who yelled at customers constantly.

2) The Citibank on 72nd& Broadway had a customer service rep who was named "Donna Chang". She was African American. This has to be the source of The Chinese Woman episode. Nice lady.

3) Best of all, my beloved P&G, where I was idiot-in-residence for several years, was used for exteriors.

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/ ok sorry for such a boring post but it is snowing here and QUIET and I am bored.

I had a smelly car once (mildew from a leaky sunroof that the dealership wouldn't fix). It wasn't as funny as the Seinfeld episode though, because I paid $23k for it 2 years before, and everyone making the comparison to the Seinfeld episode got really old really fast.

It holds up pretty well, assuming you can get past the fact that cell phones would have made more than half the plots five minutes long.

I think Always Sunny is sort of the spiritual successor to Seinfeld. They're both the story of a group of increasingly irredeemable assholes that are somehow portrayed as the protagonists.

It's Always Sunny is my favorite show.

My moron girlfriend hates that, too.

...Come to think of it, she hates almost everything I like. It gives me precious little time to watch anything, really.

my wife and i rarely agree on shows, and she's not the type who can watch the same episode of a show or certain movies multiple times. we have more than 1 tv + high-speed internet. solves that "problem" rather quickly

/she HAS gotten me hooked on like 15 different versions of l&o and csi, though//and CHOPPED

FTA: "The four desperately search the parking garage, each getting themselves in their own distinct pickle. They finally find the car nearly three hours later and the disgruntled group heads back to New York City."

It holds up pretty well, assuming you can get past the fact that cell phones would have made more than half the plots five minutes long.

I think Always Sunny is sort of the spiritual successor to Seinfeld. They're both the story of a group of increasingly irredeemable assholes that are somehow portrayed as the protagonists.

It's Always Sunny is my favorite show.

My moron girlfriend hates that, too.

...Come to think of it, she hates almost everything I like. It gives me precious little time to watch anything, really.

doczoidberg, you need to take a cue from George Costanza! Ask your girlfriend to marry you, then buy the cheapest wedding invitations you can find. Put your foot down! When she's putting them together, she'll be poisoned by the toxic adhesive on the envelopes and die, and then you can enjoy all the things you never could before!

It holds up pretty well, assuming you can get past the fact that cell phones would have made more than half the plots five minutes long.

I think Always Sunny is sort of the spiritual successor to Seinfeld. They're both the story of a group of increasingly irredeemable assholes that are somehow portrayed as the protagonists.

It's Always Sunny is my favorite show.

My moron girlfriend hates that, too.

...Come to think of it, she hates almost everything I like. It gives me precious little time to watch anything, really.

doczoidberg, you need to take a cue from George Costanza! Ask your girlfriend to marry you, then buy the cheapest wedding invitations you can find. Put your foot down! When she's putting them together, she'll be poisoned by the toxic adhesive on the envelopes and die, and then you can enjoy all the things you never could before!

until doczoidberg's late-fiancee's family creates a foundation in her honor and has doczoidberg involved in the day-to-day operations of that foundation

Cellphones weren't ubiquitous like they are now, but Elaine had one in one episode where Jerry and George chided her for calling her friend from the street to check on her sick relative. "The street call is the lowest form of call there is."

Ant:I had a smelly car once (mildew from a leaky sunroof that the dealership wouldn't fix). It wasn't as funny as the Seinfeld episode though, because I paid $23k for it 2 years before, and everyone making the comparison to the Seinfeld episode got really old really fast.

I think the most bizarre thing about Seinfeld is that Liz Sheridan,who played Jerrys' Mother,dated and eventually lived with James Dean for about a year...It's kinda like Waylon Jennings playing bass for Buddy Holly on the last tour...

Does anyone know whether or not that "Good Samaritan" law from the finale is real anywhere in the U.S.? I know it was mostly made-up for the show, just wondering if there's any semblance of it that actually exists.